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ll/Nrrnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. MANN, OF BUFFALU, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALE TO ADOLPH C. KNOTHE AND FRANK KNOTIIE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

SNAP-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 407,096, dated July 16, 1889. Application filed January 10, 1889. $eral No. 295,917. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, CHARLES A. MANN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bulfalo,i11 the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a suspender snaphook, and has the object to produce a cheap hook of this class having few parts, and which shall have no projecting parts which are liable to chafe the clothing or disengage the hook from the suspender by catching the vest 01' other garment.

The invention consists of thc im provements which will be hereinafter fully deseribed, and

,pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved snap-hook. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the portion of the hook constituting the frame. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the tongue portion thereof. Fig. 4: is a cross-section, and Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, of the snap-hook.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A represents the back plate or frame, formed at one end with a hook Z), which is designed for engagement with the ring' of the suspender, and at its opposite end with a loop c, which is attached to the suspender-cnds, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. l.

D is a spring-tongue attached to the frame A and bearin g at its outer end against the free end or nose of the hook Z). The tongue D is formed at its inner portion with a return bend or leaf (l, which rcsts against the adjacent front side of the frame A, the tongue, with its branch (Z, forming a tongueframe which' is approximately U-shapcd. The tongue, with its branch (Z, is preferably eonstrueted of a single piece of spring-brass. The inner portion of the tongue is confined between two ears e c, formed at the edges of the frame A, and is provided with laterally-projeeting pins or pivots f, which fit in openings or perforations g, formed in the outcr portions of the ears e. These openings are made somewhat larger than the pivots f, so as to give the latf of a part of the strain.

ter a certain play in the openings. In depressing the tongue D its inner leaf d is also defiected and caused to move outwardly on the frame, thus resisting the inward movement of the tongue and relieving the pivots The pivots f prevent the tongue D from moving lengthwise on the frame, and the cars e hold it against lateral displaeement.

The portion of the tongue D in line with the cars e is corrugated or depressed below the outer portion of the ears, as shown at h, and the pivots f are formed on this depressed portion, so as to enable the opeuings in the ears to be formed at a distance from the outer edges of the 'latter and bring the outer ends of the ears flush with the face of the tongue to prevcnt the cars from wear-ing the clothing.

The contiguous end portions of the tongue D and hook b overlap each other, and these end portions arel both provided with offsets, as clearl y shown in the drawings, so as to form a flush joint and producea smooth continuous surface on the inner as well as. on the outer side of the tongue and hook. This construction leaves the snap-hook free from projec tions which are liable to catch on the vest or other garment and cause accidental depression of the tongue and discngagement of the hook b from the ring attached to the suspender.

My improved snap-hook can be produced at small cost and is very simple in construction, being composed of but two picees, which are formed of sheet metal by stamping. The ears e are stampcd flat in the same plane with the frame A, and are afterward bent at right angles to the frame, the openings in the ears being passed over the pins f of the tongue in the act of bending the same np, thus attaching the tongue, with its branch (Z, to the frame in a simple and inexpensive manner without any other fastening.

I claim as my lnvention-- In a snap-hook, the combination, with the frame A, provided' at One cnd with a hook Z) and at its opposite end with a loop c, and having on its lateral edges upwardly-projceting lugs 8, of a U-shaped spring-tongue D, having its lower branch cl resting" upon the frame and en gaging against the end of the hook b, A, and provided on its upper branch With latsubstantially as set forth. Io erally-projeoting pins depressed below the *tness my hand this 27th day December,

' upper branch of said tongue and pivoted be'v 1888.

5 tween the ears of' the frame, Whereby the CHARLES A.'MANN.

tongue is held from both lateral and length- VVitnesses: Wise movement on the frame, and an offset J NO. J. BONNER,

formed on the forward front end of the tongue C. D. HOWE. 

